now it opens upon startup twice.

Half as slow. Yay!

But can it give me “Havana syndrome?”

We use WebEx. I would gladly take Teams.

The issue here was that libraries aren't able to own these books though because publishers refuse to sell them the digital copies.

Personally, I think IP law as written was on the publishers' side here (for better or worse), but the issue is that libraries are being left in a fundamentally different position in terms of e-books than they were with physical copies.

Losing something wasn't the only relevant point of law at issue here though.

Pretty much the outcome I expected. It's hard to argue copyright law as written wasn't firmly on the side of the publishers, especially once internet archive moved away from distributing the works digitally on a strict 1:1 basis with a physical copy.

(and before anyone says it, I'm not taking the publishers' side here, but the law is the law.)

I have been corrected

Yes, but the ChatGPT service that they’re using hasn’t rolled out this capability yet, beyond plugin support for those who have made it through the alpha waitlist.

Hello!

About a month ago I got a Seagate hard drive. I have been able to remove it and attach it successfully up until today. But when I try to open a game it says that it isn't downloaded, and when I go to change the download location to the hard drive, it says either "D:/ is unavailable right now" or "The request had failed due to a fatal hard drive issue."

Anyways, If someone could help me it would be greatly appreciated! :)

I remember when the Alta Vista web browser used to be trim and show the best result in the the first few, then it became bloated with ads, then you had to go to page 10 to see a useful result. Google started like Alta Vista started, refreshing, but now you too frequently have to go to page 10 to find what you want.

Simply the worst video conference app ever made. Now twice as bad?

We're gonna train it to value profit above all else. Of course it's going to attack humans.

Sick, now Teams can use all 8GB of my work computer’s RAM instead of just the 4GB.

Belt and Road initiative loans are relatively low compared to other sources you would go to for a project like this like the IMF who would be saddling you with a higher interest rate and a bunch of stipulations involving how you can run your economy. The debt trap isn't anything on the surface it's that China is giving these loans to historically unstable countries that no other source would be willing to lend to because there is no guarantee they will be economically stable. So you take the loan because of course you will be the one to turn your country around and keep the boat from tipping over and then a nearby harvest fails, bread prices go up, and everything goes to shit. Now here you are stuck with this loan and no capacity to repay it

What. The. Actual. Fuck?! I seem to have completely missed this. How come there was not more of an outcry about this? That's horrific! Thanks for sharing, mate!

There’s simply nothing redeeming about any aspect of Teams. It’s hard to fuck something up so badly….

And yet, they needed (what appear to be) two whistleblowers and a security to point them to this. None of this was discovered by Google themselves - others tipped them off.

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Great, now its inscrutable interface can confuse me twice as fast.

How anyone decided to call that thing Teams without defining ‘team’ anywhere is beyond me, and don’t get me started on trying to figure out who is on what team.

From the brilliantly written article which I challenge anyone to dispute

Google users have developed one very specific complaint about the ubiquitous search engine: They can't find any answers. A simple search for "best pc for gaming" leads to a page dominated by sponsored links rather than helpful advice on which computer to buy. Meanwhile, the actual results are chock-full of low-quality, search-engine-optimized affiliate content designed to generate money for the publisher rather than provide high-quality answers. As a result, users have resorted to work-arounds and hacks to try and find useful information among the ads and low-quality chum. In short, Google's flagship service now sucks.

And Google isn't the only tech giant with a slowly deteriorating core product. Facebook, a website ostensibly for finding and connecting with your friends, constantly floods users' feeds with sponsored (or "recommended") content, and seems to bury the things people want to see under what Facebook decides is relevant. And as journalist John Herrman wrote earlier this year, the "junkification of Amazon" has made it nearly impossible for users to find a high-quality product they want — instead diverting people to ad-riddled result pages filled with low-quality products from sellers who know how to game the system.

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Yeah well twice zero is still zero. I like it better than Zoom but if it were up to me my workplace would all be using Discord lol

Ironically, I clicked on the link and was prompted to download the app, wait a second or two for some nonessential api call on the popup to load, close some other popup that I've already forgotten the content of, and then i could finally read the article, which seemed to be written more for SEO than ease of reading.

Why don't they borrow from the IMF then?